This picture is from 2003, during the shooting of Mangal Pandey: The Rising. The film was about the 1857 revolt — the uprising that shook the foundations of British rule in India. Now imagine: for the inauguration of such a patriotic movie, who did the filmmakers invite? Not an Indian leader, not a freedom fighter’s family — but Prince Charles, heir to the very empire the film was exposing. The irony? The villains in the story were being honored in real life. It shows how deeply the colonial min